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Thomas Gray Archive

The Thomas Gray Archive is a
peer-reviewed
digital archive and research project devoted to
eighteenth-century poet, letter-writer, and
scholar Thomas
Gray (1716-1771), author of the
acclaimed "Elegy
Written
in a Country Churchyard" (1751).
Founded in 2000, the Archive's mission is to
facilitate collaboration and to
support the study, research, and teaching of Gray's
life and works.

New to Gray?

Gray was a versatile writer. His slim but
wide-ranging corpus comprises lyric
and
dramatic poems, humorous and satirical pieces, imitations
and
translations, written in English, Latin, and Greek. Gray
was also
a polymath. His interests and areas of expertise included
literature, philosophy, history, sciences, architecture,
art,
geography and travel. He went on
the Grand
Tour with Horace Walpole and later in life devoted
himself to
antiquarian studies, spent time studying at the newly
opened
British Museum, and travelling in the Lakes and
Scotland. His
biographer William Mason concluded "[p]erhaps he was the
most
learned man in Europe" (qt. Johnson, 'The Life of Gray' [22]).

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About the Archive

The Thomas Gray Archive was co-founded by
Reimer
Eck (Göttingen State and University Library) and Alexander Huber (Bodleian
Libraries, University of Oxford) who is also its
editor. See About for further information.